Year: 2014

The University of Stirling is opening new student accommodation in time for the autumn semester, marking the completion of the second phase of the University’s £40 million pound residences redevelopment project.

The new accommodation, Beech Court, will welcome students from Saturday 13 September, the beginning of the University’s Freshers Week.

Beech Court will provide high-quality accommodation for 300 students and features well-designed study bedrooms, spacious kitchens with dining space, increased social space and better connections to the external landscape …

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City planners have received eight applications for student accommodation from a range of developers.

Two have applied for full planning permission and six have tendered advance notice they plan to lodge applications. Six are regarded as major or national applications which require the developer to consult with the public.

Applications for student flats only fall into this category if the site is at least two hectares in size. That means the developments would cover a total area equivalent to 18 football pitches …

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Hope Street Properties has submitted an application to Liverpool City Council for the development of 52 studio apartments on Fleet Street.

The proposed seven-storey student accommodation scheme is for a brownfield site at 16 Fleet Street.

The plans include commercial space in the basement and ground floor of the block …

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One of the largest student accommodation management and building firms in the country, Unite Group, have been given the green light by Portsmouth Council for a landmark student property in Greetham Street, Portsmouth.

The £42m development will house around 836 students and completion is anticipated in time for the 2016/17 academic year.

The site will occupy the current unused Greetham Street carpark and Dugald Drummond House, which will be cleared for the development …

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Carlisle’s former Central Clinic looks set to become accommodation for up to 59 students.

Chartered accountant Ian Lancaster acquired the building, in Victoria Place in the city centre, at auction for £370,000 in February.

He has tabled a planning application through his company, Devonshire Lodge, to convert it into high-specification student residences …

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Galiford Try has completed Hughenden Park Student Village building at Buckinghamshire New Uni.

Galiford Try has handed over a completed student accommodation building at Buckinghamshire New University which will result in the university opening this month with an additional 25% accommodation available.

Buckinghamshire New Uni took position of the new student accommodation building which forms part of Hughenden Park Student Village in High Wycombe at an office ceremony on Wednesday …

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Unite Group is on track to develop almost 10,000 new bed spaces in the next three years and is open to working with new contractors, its managing director of property has said.

Speaking to Construction News before the developer released its half-year results, Richard Simpson said Unite would build out a £600m pipeline of almost 10,000 new student bed spaces over the next three years.

Despite using an “informal” framework of five to six main contractors, Mr Simpson insisted Unite is “open to other contractors and [expands its] frameworks quite quickly” …

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Legacy Student Living has submitted a planning application for the development of 192 serviced apartments on the site of a former Rapid DIY building in Renshaw Street.

The derelict building is at the junction of Renshaw Street and Newington Street within the Central Village scheme.

The site is near to the Watson building and the former Lewis’s department store …

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Empiric Student Property PLC Wednesday said it has acquired the freehold of Centro Court, a direct-let, student accommodation site in Aberdeen from Scape Homes in a deal worth GBP6.5 million.

The purpose-built student accommodation comprises 56 self-contained studio apartments together with bike storage facilities, communal entertainment and laundry areas.

The property, on Loch Street, is within walking distance of Aberdeen University and a short bus ride from the main campus of Robert Gordon University …

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Campus Living Villages (CLV) is to develop and operate a new student accommodation scheme in partnership with the University of St Andrews.

The Fife Park scheme comprises 324 beds across nine blocks and will be open in time for the 2015-16 academic year.

M&G Investments is providing £25 million of finance for the project and has acquired a long leasehold interest in the property …

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